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Filippi Spirit Award

Zimbabwe’s Micheen Thornycroft, a Rhodes University graduate student and coach and two-time Olympic rower, is the newest recipient of World Rowing’s Filippi Spirit Award. Given annually to university rowers who…

Misery Loves Company

I’m not sure if there are other generations of skiing fans out there—other than my own—who remember Warren Miller movies featuring a Mohawk-sporting extreme skier named Glen Plake (aka Plake…

The Fidgeter’s Dilemma

Although two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, a handful of skinny people—including many athletes—feel frustrated by their seeming inability to gain weight. Clearly, one’s genetics play a powerful role…

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